On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld at sun.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 19:35 +0100, Jennifer Pioch wrote: >> Should we move the main ONNV gate to genunix.org to prevent .... from >> shutting down Opensolaris? > > One of the advantages of a distributed SCM system like Mercurial is that > every clone is a full copy of the source tree and can become a new root > if the contributing developers agree.
Exactly. genunix.org has such clone since oh, so long ago. See http://hg.genunix.org/onnv-gate.hg This repo is no more than 10 minutes behind the upstream repo hosted at hg?opensolaris.org, so I think we are in pretty good shape. > > Every full clone of onnv-gate in existence could serve as the seed for a > new project; if the current "main tree" is destroyed or damaged, > developers merely need to identify one of the clones as the new main > tree and keep going. Right. -- Regards, Cyril
